Following yesterday’s report, where Chipzilla’s CEO Paul Otellini told his employees that Windows 8 will not be fully ready at launch, the company hurried to the operating system’s defense.

Intel’s statement starts off with a little bit of history, pointing out the “long and successful heritage working with Microsoft”. The rest of the sentence talks about “delivering devices that provide exciting experiences, stunning performance ad superior compatibility”, although they forgot to mention a few service packs that go in between.

The statement goes on:”Intel, Microsoft, and our partners have been working closely together on testing and validation to ensure delivery of a high-quality experience across the nearly 200 Intel-based designs that will start launching in October. Intel CEO Paul Otellini is on record as saying "Windows 8 is one of the best things that ever happened to Intel," citing the importance of the touch interface coming to mainstream computing and the huge wave of exciting new ultrabook, tablet, and convertible device innovations coming to the market.”

Well, there you have it. Of course, it still doesn’t mean squat when it comes to Windows 8 being fully ready for launch, but Chipzilla has spoken nevertheless.

Chipzilla CEO Paul Otellini has told the company’s Taiwanese employees that Microsoft will launch its upcoming Windows 8, despite the OS not being fully ready.

Otellini said that Windows 8 requires some improvements to be made, but that Microsoft will handle them once the product is out the door. Apparently, the OS lacks robust applications and driver bugs are aplenty.

It’s no secret that Microsoft is anxious to get Windows 8 out as soon as possible. After all, the holiday shopping sprees and the madness they cause may just make everyone buy Apple gear, and Redmond wouldn’t like that one bit.

Truth be told, all Microsoft’s OS’ came out slightly, or quite, buggy, only to be polished afterwards. Microsoft’s spokesperson says that Windows 8 is “the most tested, reviewed and ready operating system in Microsoft’s history”. Well, considering Microsoft’s history, that can't be a lot.

Sega has apparently been sitting on the completed new HD conversions of Shenmue 1 and 2 for intended release on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Sources claim that the reason is that the company has yet to decide the fate of a potential Shenmue 3 and wants to do so before releasing the first two.

Of course, our source says that what has been reported elsewhere is apparently correct, but puzzling. While our sources claim that HD ports of Shenmue 1 & 2 are at least something that we have been hearing about for a long time, we hate to get too excited without Sega officially announcing them.

It is unknown exactly why or what Sega might be deciding about when it comes to Shenmue 3. What we can tell you is that a lot of those who played the first two Shenmue offerings would be very excited to finally get the third installment that they have always wanted.

Our sources tell us that we should get official word in the form of an announcement from Sega soon.

While Crytek isn’t naming any names, the company claims that the all new next generation Crytek engine 3 is ready and is already being used by unnamed developers who are using it to build titles for the next generation consoles.

Sources seem to believe that select studio teams have been working on next generation titles since Microsoft issued specs to some developers late last year. It is unclear if the new Crytek Engine 3 is just coded to certain development standards that Microsoft provided to developers.

Crytek has twice (that we know of) said that while it may be working on a new TimeSplitters 4 title, it isn’t using the new Crytek 3 engine to power it. However, sources tell us that this could just be a clever smoke screen.

Crytek says that they will be showing more on their new engine during 2012. The company claims that they didn’t have to rebuild their engine to deliver the higher quality expected for the next generation of consoles. Sources tell us that the engine will be available for use on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the PC. It will also be offered for several of the unnamed next generation consoles.

The delayed Nintendo 3DS update is now online and users are telling us that they have been able to update their units with no problem.

The latest update was originally scheduled for release in November. However, Nintendo delayed it to have more time to polish and test the update process, from what we understand.

The November update adds the DLC and 3D video recording abilities as the big draw. In addition, there are a number of other new things that the update adds. Users are being prompted to update their 3DS units once they connect to a WiFi connection.

Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman has been telling the world+dog that the next version of Android will be released in October or November.

This will mean that we will see Ice Cream Sandwich machines ready in time for Christmas. Schmidt mentioned this at the Dreamforce conference and added Google was excited about the upcoming launch.

ICS uses Google's tablet and phone interfaces to form a unified platform. However other than that it is a bit of a mystery.

Google has been developing the "open" platform behind closed doors using a level of secrecy that only Apple would be proud of. Some heavily censored screenshots were leaked last month provided a glimpse of a new Honeycomb-like application launcher interface running on an Android phone.

Google is expereced to have a flagship smartphone, dubbed the Nexus Prime to ship alongside the ICS release. It will be targeting Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 during the Christmas rush.

HP's Slate will run off of Palm's WebOS and will be in the shops "early 2011." Phil McKinney, HP's vice president and chief technology officer for the company's personal systems group was chatting to VentureBeat when he spilled the beans.

McKinney said that the WebOS-based version of the company's slate is well on track for its release early next year. He added that a Windows 7-based slate would be in the shops long before that happens. The Microsoft based gear will begin shipping by the end of the year.

It looks like HP will be targeting its enterprise users. It has customers in retail and health care that have specific Windows 7 applications, yet they want that portability. HP originally announced it was working on a Windows 7 slate at the Consumer Electronics Show back in January.

Besides computing devices, McKinney elaborated on the company's plans to bring WebOS to printers in the near future.